Development of screen-based file utilities on unix

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a utility on UNIX for user. The work involved studying the management process of file system on UNIX, and to design the ease-of-use and effective user interface for user in order to access and manage the UNIX file system using this effectively utility. This thesis consists of two parts. First, user-interface module which is a user menu. Second, file utilities module which is a file management process. The required tools for development, knowledge and programming languages include curses, C Programming Language, UNIX system calls and UNIX shell utilities. Without remembering hundreds of UNIX commands, the utility allows users to manage files and directories at just a fingertip on the keyboard. Hence, not only that even a new users of UNIX can manage files; such as delete, move, copy, etc. easily, but also speeding up the learning curve for a naïve UNIX users.